O.I.L. Media Roundup (18 January)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Occupation, Intervention, and Law and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the O.I.L. Page...
View ArticleA New Revolt in Morocco?: An Interview with Mohamed El Marouani
[Mohamed El Marouani is the author of Abdessalam Yassine's funeral oration, who died on 13 December 2012. Sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for "conspiring against state security," El Marouani...
View Article"Business Networks in Syria": Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad on C-Span...
Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad discussed his book, Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience with C-Span's Book TV, and talked about the current conflict in that...
View ArticleFocus sur le Mali, deuxième partie: Une guerre qui menace toute la région
[Cet article est le deuxième d'une série de trois, avec des perspectives différentes sur les développements au Mali. Le premier article - « Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive Revisited »...
View ArticleDepoliticizing Bahrain's Uprising: The Rhetoric of Human Rights
Various local, regional, and international parties concerned with Bahraini affairs have failed to translate the November 2011 report of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI, also known...
View ArticleLast Week on Jadaliyya (Jan 14-20)
This is a selection of what you might have missed on Jadaliyya last week. It also includes a list of the most read articles. Progressively, we will be featuring more content on our "Last Week on...
View ArticleEgypt Media Roundup (January 21)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on Egypt and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Egypt Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may...
View ArticleThe Invisible Link: Honor Killing and Global Capitalism
The unfolding debate about the Palestinian hip hop group DAM’s new music video “If I Could Go Back in Time,” and Lila Abu-Lughod and Maya Mikdashi’s critique of it, has generated an intense visceral...
View ArticleQIZ: Egyptian Jeans Under the Patronage of the Muslim Brotherhood
Two weeks ago, an official Egyptian delegation visited Washington to negotiate expanding the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement with Israel and the US, which sees designated geographic areas in...
View ArticleMali in Focus, Part Two: A War That Threatens the Entire Region
[This article is the second of a three-part series featuring different perspectives on the recent developments in Mali. Previously published: "Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive...
View Article"Light From the Middle East: New Photography" at the Victoria and Albert...
Light from the Middle East: New PhotographyExhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK 13 November 2012 – 7 April 2013The photographer Abbas’s images of the Iranian revolution have been...
View ArticleArabian Peninsula Media Roundup (January 22)
[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors...
View ArticleFocus sur le Mali, troisième partie: Une périlleuse démonstration de force de...
[Cet article est le troisième d'une série de trois, avec des perspectives différentes sur les développements au Mali. Les articles précédents - « Mali in Focus, Part One: The Jihadist Offensive...
View ArticleTipping Towards Iraq's Squares: An Interview with Falah Alwan
The Iraqi state releasing 335 detainees this past week? Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki bussing in a few hundred paid “supporters” to rally? What gives? Signs point to the wave of mass anti-government...
View ArticleAdvocacy, Uprising, and Authoritarianism in Bahrain: An Interview With Ahmed...
Almost two years after the beginning of the February 14 uprising, the Bahraini regime is still struggling to crush the ongoing political and civil rights movement, all the while working to rehabilitate...
View Articleمالي الحرب الماحقة
بدأت فرنسا حملتها في مالي ودس أنفها في شؤون مستعمرتها السابقة متعذرة بمحاربة "القوى الإسلامية المتطرفة" وضرورة وضع حد لسطوتها في مالي. خططت وأرست القواعد والجنود وقررت القصف ومطاردة هذه الجماعات، قتلت...
View Article“I Have The Picture!” Egypt’s Photographic Heritage between Neoliberalism and...
The Arab Image Foundation (AIF)—a private archiving initiative founded by a group of artists and collectors in 1997, and run through foreign and local grants—appears on the surface like the very...
View Articleفي مديح دار للسينما في بغداد
في مديح دار للسينما ببغداد: شاشة الأحلام حين تصبح مرآة لتحولات مدينة في العام 1960 كانت سنتي الأولى في مدرسة، سأحتاج سنوات كي أعرف معنى اسمها: "التهذيب". ثم خمس سنوات لاحقاً في "مدرسة المثنى...
View ArticleEarly Perspectives from Algeria on Northern Mali and French Intervention
Thus far, Algerian press coverage and reactions are divided on France’s military intervention in northern Mali, Operation SERVAL, as well as the additional thrusts in the south by Mali’s jihadist...
View ArticleThe Human Rights Situation in Egypt: An Interview with Aida Seif El-Dawla
Aida Seif El-Dawla is a psychiatrist, long time Egyptian human rights activist, and Executive Director of the al-Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence. Since 1993 the Nadeem...
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